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What's that quote attributed (wrongly) to P.T. Barnum about one being born every minute?

Quote:Everyone did.

Huh? Not by a long shot.

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the whole thing seemed way to shady. the proof they offered wasn't in any way concrete evidence, and they wouldn't offer any proof that was. Furthermore, they wouldn't let the UN finish their jobs. They kept trying to rush us in to iraq, and when the wmd claims didn't give them enough public approval they would make other claims about saddam. They'd switch up the reasons to go to iraq, or add new reasons over night. They were just to eager to go to war and eventually a ultimatum was offered and they rushed in there. Because of course once you're there it doesn't matter if any of the allegations are true because you're there, and you have to stay there.

Quote:Be honest..Did you expect us to find WMD's before the invasion?.I did. Everyone did. I didn't matter what Powell said on TV. It was thought to be common knowledge across all countries and with all leaders.

Sorry to burst your bubble but most people in the western world were not at all convinced there were WMD present and most allys of Gulf War I times completely opposed Gulf War II. Even the UN tried to stop it. What did the US do? They called "French Fries" "Liberty Fries" and dropped more bombs on iraq than were dropped on Europe in World War two on all sides.

Think of those other nations and the UN what you will, but they were aslmosdt unanymouds in their condemnation making your POV incorrect.

"To the extent the federal government didn't fully do itsjob right, I take responsibility"

- George Bush

Read it.

I read it as "I take responsibility for the government's failure".

Interested to see what your point is...hoping you've got somethingbetter to do than nitpick over the fact that I described the failurethat he is taking responsibility for as *massive* or didn't qualifythe word government with *federal*.

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Bush is of course ultimately responsible for the extent to which federal disaster response was flawed -- he's the president. What I find interesting is why anyone would find it such a big deal that he acknowledged that fact.

I take it to mean just exactly what it says. There were several levels of government involved. To wit, Federal, state, city and levee commissions, which are independent. He copped only to federal responsibility. You would like to extend it to other areas where the failures actually occurred but he simply doesn't have any say so. Please list for us just what federal failures you think occurred and explain why they are Bush's and not the Congress's as well. Thank you.

Quote:Sycronica said:That's a good step, now lets make him accountable for lying to us about WMD.

Be honest.

Did you expect us to find WMD's before the invasion?

I did. Everyone did. I didn't matter what Powell said on TV. It was thought to be common knowledge across all countries and with all leaders.

Give it a rest, jeez.

Why did you expect to find WMD? Because they told us it was there.

I don't give a rats ass what everyone "thought". Just because we all thought something that wasn't true doesn't make it excusable for those at the top to lie to us. Because ultimately "someone" knows the truth when a lie is told, and that someone is in our govt. Maybe it wasn't bush exactly, but he is the president and as with the govts failure in the hurricane "the buck stops here". He is ultimately responsible that the feds reacted slow to the hurricane and he is responsible for many thousands of innocent iraqi deaths and around 2000 US soldier's death for leading us into a war that was based on lies.

Give it a rest? Fuck that! I'll give it a rest when they take a rest on locking up innocent americans for their fake war on drugs.

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Forgiveness is the ultimate sacrifice.

You can fool some people sometimes, but you can't fool all the people all the time.

Quote:zappaisgod said:I take it to mean just exactly what it says. There were several levels of government involved. To wit, Federal, state, city and levee commissions, which are independent. He copped only to federal responsibility. You would like to extend it to other areas where the failures actually occurred but he simply doesn't have any say so. Please list for us just what federal failures you think occurred and explain why they are Bush's and not the Congress's as well. Thank you.

Now all we need is for Nagin and Blanco to accept blame for their respective failures.

There were failures in the federal system.Most notably, in my mind, was the fact that the Feds didn't push the city and state government into declaring a state of emergency and martial law sooner.The feds could have been in the area days before they were had the local and state governments expedited their pleas.

The Fed's hands were tied until help was requested.I've seen nothing but significant improvement since the Feds got involved.

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